Jim Calhoun
Jim Calhoun
James A. Calhoun is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships, played in four Final Fours, won the 1988 NIT title, and seven Big East tournament championships. With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title. He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his career with 873 victories, ranking 12th all-time as of...
expected last season type
He?s having the type of season we all expected him to have last year.
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He's going to take on at least nine opponent crowds who are going to brutalize him. He's got to be man enough to stand up to that. He put himself in that situation.
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He's a terrific kid who made a dumb, dumb selfish mistake. He's not the first and he won't be the last, unfortunately. Hopefully, it's not going to be on my watch. I'm a great believer that people should be allowed and are allowed a second chance.
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He's a terrific 5-on-5 player, much better than he is a 2-on-2 or a 1-on-1 player.
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He?s a very young kid. All the things that I, you, all of us ? because of his incredible athletic ability, not necessarily his basketball ability ? thrust upon him, it might have been a little bit early for him, that?s all.
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He's going to go through a very, very interesting time. He's grown a great deal. I think it's been a very negative experience for him. Which it should be. He put himself in this position.
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He's going to be something very, very special. Right now, he is a terrific college basketball player, not the great, great dominating college basketball player that he would be if he stayed in college. I don't think the circumstances are going to allow it to come, unfortunately. I just think that's the way it is.
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He's done a great job there. He has a team that puts constant offensive and defensive pressure on you. They're deep. They run. They're quick. They're just a relentless team. A lot of that has to do with his personality. That's how he coaches, and he doesn't accept excuses when it comes to effort.
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Hopefully, they'll learn if they truly, truly want to be UConn basketball players and represent the state, represent themselves and our team. Give me that opportunity.
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We have to be a much more focused team. We need to stay connected. We seem to fix our mistakes as games go on. But a full 40 minutes of focus is what we're going to need.
He wasn't going in. We weren't going to take that chance.
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He was one of the icons of basketball. He knew every coach and so when you would attend the Final Four he would say, 'I like the job you're doing.' He was a real gentleman and a classy, classy person.
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He doesn't want to talk about it. Nor do I.
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He gave us that legitimate guard that I've been talking about that nobody wants to hear.